On July 7, 2016, Arkansas Secretary of State Mark Martin confirmed that the Arkansas Medical Cannabis Act has received enough valid signatures to appear on the state’s ballot in November.

The Arkansas Medical Cannabis Act, submitted by Arkansans for Compassionate Care, is the first of three potential medical marijuana initiatives to make it on the ballot. The other two competing initiatives include the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act and The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment of 2016.

ACC has requested that the organizers of the competing initiatives cancel their campaigns to join the ACC’s campaign. According to KARK, “Melissa Fults, director of Arkansans for Compassionate Care, said polling showed that if two marijuana initiatives appeared on the November ballot, they would certainly fail.”

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California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has been on a mission to ensure state-legal cannabis businesses have commercial insurance coverage and with his announcement of the first California cannabis surety bond program on Feb. 21, 2018, he continues to make progress.

More strife is on the horizon for Ohio’s troubled medical cannabis program. On Feb. 20, 2018, a group of unsuccessful medical cannabis applicants, led by Jimmy Gould of CannAscend Ohio LLC, filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s medical cannabis licensing process.

While the province of Newfoundland and Labrador has its key policies in place for recreational legalization and has secured a supply agreement with Canopy Growth Corporation (TSX:WEED) to provide cannabis for the province, it is now ready to hear from prospective cannabis retailers.

MJINews was started to aggregate, report and opine on various ways to make money in the legal marijuana industry. While medical marijuana has been legal in many states for years, its legalization for recreational use in Colorado and Washington in 2014 has catapulted the entire subject to new heights.
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